(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)
Street Roots, Portland’s first-rate paper about homelessness and housing issues, sometimes asks questions about the closely related subject of transportation.
A questionnaire distributed to the mayoral candidates and published last week includes a quick window into the ways different candidates think about mobility issues.
The question:
Please place the following items in order of priority as mayor.
• Increase parking
• Bike infrastructure
• Low or no-fare public transit
Here’s what they said:
Jules Bailey
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking
Patty Burkett
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking
Sean Davis
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike lanes
3. Increase parking
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Bim Ditson
1. Bike infrastructure
2. Low- or no-fare public transit
3. Increase parking
Deborah Harris
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Increase parking
3. Bike infrastructure
Sarah Iannarone
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Make downtown a car-free zone
David Schor
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking
Jessie Sponberg
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking
Ted Wheeler
1. Low- or no-fare public transit
2. Bike infrastructure
3. Increase parking
So, to recap:
• Only one candidate, Ditson, put bike infrastructure above cheap transit.
• Only one candidate, Harris, put bike infrastructure below more auto parking.
• Only one candidate, Iannarone, decided that she was so strongly against increasing auto parking that she would refuse to put it on her list at all.
— Michael Andersen, (503) 333-7824 – michael@bikeportland.org
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